The Guide to Outlining an Online Course Curriculum

Creating a comprehensive course content plan dramatically decreases the time it takes to create an online course.

Every online course starts out as a collection of bullet points in a word document, or as a series of post-its on a wall, or even as a messy diagram on a whiteboard. From there, your ideas become a structured outline, then a curriculum. The final steps are planning and creating your lessons, then uploading into Thinkific. Getting to this stage takes some time, so we’ve put together this guide to help you outline your online course quicker. The more efficient you outline your course, the sooner your audience can benefit.

Outlining your online course curriculum guide

In this guide you'll learn five steps to outlining your course curriculum:

  • Imagine your student's outcome

  • Brainstorm the path backwards

  • Determining major milestones vs. steps

  • Sort steps under milestones

  • Clean up and finalize